Waiting for the Sun [Import]

1. Heart Run Free

2. Rise Up

3. Why Should I Care

4. Forever

5. Man Inside

6. Do You Ever Think Of Me

7. Still Believe

8. To The Cross

9. Fool Again

10. Live In The Night

11. Waiting For The Sun

Tracks:

Hello, I Love You
Love Street
Not To Touch The Earth
Summer's Almost Gone
Wintertime Love
The Unknown Soldier
Spanish Caravan
My Wild Love
We Could Be So Good Together
Yes, The River Knows
Five To One
Albinoni's Adagio In G Minor (Bonus)
Not To Touch The Earth (Dialogue) (Bonus)
Not To Touch The Earth (Take 1) (Bonus)
Not To Touch The Earth (Take 2) (Bonus)
Celebration Of The Lizard (An Experiment/work In Progress) (Bonus

Album Description

1968's WAITING FOR THE SUN, the Doors' first chart-topper, delivered the #1 signature smash "Hello, I Love You" and the Top 40 hit "The Unknown Soldier." New liner notes penned by Paul Williams. Five bonus tracks include the 17-minute epic "Celebration Of The Lizard" and three previously unissued versions of "Not To Touch The Earth."

Customer Reviews:

the doors most underated work .......2007-08-05

okk first appy 40 b day to the dors i love this band the album waiting for the sun was the sliping point for the doors but i love them who cares about editing or remixes as long as u got it if u love this band so much u will get this album t has spains caravan hellow i love u and even the 40th editon has the 17 min celbration of the lizard so u love this group like i do then u would by and stop complaing bout it

Different but Still Great!.......2007-07-09

I bought this new version of "Waiting for the Sun" to get a studio-version of the legendary unreleased song "Celebration of the Lizard". Obviously the strongest part of the song is, what was released on the original album as "Not to Touch the Earth", and the track is what it says, "a work in progress". Still interesting moments. The other takes of "Not to Touch the Earth" which are included as bonus-tracks have made me realize how good a song this really is.

What surprised me the most when I listened through the album was that I thought it sounded different. Was it really that long since I last heard it? I did not realize that the album had been both remastered and remixed. I guess it will take some time to get used to these new "versions" - but the sound is really crisp and clear, and if I want to hear the old mixes I can always return to the originals.

The original album contains some the Doors' most poetic and melodic moments like "Yes, The River Knows", the exquisite "Love Street" , which is one of the highlights of the album. The moving "Summer`s Almost Gone". "Wintertime Love" and "Spanish Caravan" are other highlights.

"Not to Touch the Earth" and "Five to One" : Classic Doors !!!
The hit singles "Hello I Love You" and "The Unknown Soldier" may not have aged as well as the rest of the album`s songs. Except of course the weak "My Wild Love" which probably always will annoy me.

We finally get the whole package.......2007-06-23

When this album was released in the late 60's, I bought the vinyl album and noticed that the liner notes had the entire version of "The Celebration of the Lizard). The only part of this that appeared on the album was "Not to touch the Earth"
Not to Touch the Earth is probably the best part of the song, but its only part of it.
I remember being disappointed that the song was not long like, The End or When the Music's over were on their previous two releases.
FINALLY after 40 years they have released a studio version of the entire song.
Waiting for the Sun and their first album simply entitled the Doors are in my mind their best releases. Both albums are raw and are less commercial.
Some of the later releases such as Soft Parade and Morrison Hotel are either not as good or are too commerical. A few songs on Soft Parade even have horns and other things that make the recordings too "Refined"
Jim Morrison is reciting his poetry, and it is probably his first album where he does so.
For hard core Doors fans like myself this is a must. For casual listeners or new listeners, I dont know what to tell you.
For me the recording is now complete and Doors fans like myself can now hear this CD in its entirety.............Enjoy

Remixed!!???!!! - Yep, that's the whole point.........40th Anniversary Remix.......2007-04-14

OK.....What we have here is a failure for some folks to have done their homework. This is the 40th Anniversary "remix" of Waiting for the Sun. It's supposed to be a bit different from the original. In fact ALL of the Doors studio albums have been not only remastered, but remixed. Bonus tracks added as well. If you want the Doors sounding like the albums you grew up with, then pick up the last set of remastered CDs from 1999. If you want killer sound quality, bonus tracks and a new take on these classics pick the 40th Anniversary mixes on Rhino/Elektra. If you're a big fan like me, you'll have them both. At any rate, these editions are great! They are the same you would have gotten if you bought the "Perecptions" box set (no DVD 5.1 mixes here or video content though). Don't be bummed out, just shop wisely and enjoy!! Once again, these editions are a must for longtime fans.

Remixed!!!.......2007-04-03

Yes, the sound is great but the tracks are remixed, often with new vocal and instrumental parts. These are NOT the original mixes. Caveat emptor!

Hitman: Codename 47 / Hitman 2 - Silent Assassin

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Pretty Good

Hitman: Codename 47 / Hitman 2 - Silent Assassin
Jesper Kyd
Manufacturer: La-La Land Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000A2GP5W
Release Date: 2005-08-30

Tracks:

Intro
Main Title (Extended Version)
Hong Kong Themes
Jungle Exploration
Dark Jungle
Hotel Themes
Harbor Themes
Hospital Themes
Hotel Music (Early Demo)
Rainforest (Early Demo)
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Hitman 2 Main Title
Waiting For Action
Action Begins
47 Makes A Decision
The Penthouse
Japanese Mansion
Japanese Snow Castle
Streets Of India
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Trouble In Russia
Desert Sun
Arabian Dance
The Setup
End Boss
Slow Ambience
Fast Ambience
H2 Exploration
H2 Action
Dreams Of Instanbul (Bonus Track)

Customer Reviews:

Pretty Good.......2006-07-29

This was a very unique item. Fans of the series will enjoy it. At times some of the tracks seem out of place when out of the game, but that's more than made up for by the many powerful and classic tracks that these CD's have. The first CD is more techno-inspired while the second is more operatic. It's good music to do push-ups to or to drive to. Especially the first track of the first CD.

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Excellant but incomplete
Sun burn
So It Might Not Be The Doors Best, But It's Still Good
Interesting, at least
the shaman lives

Waiting for the Sun
The Doors
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000007S5B
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Hello, I Love You
Love Street
Not To Touch The Earth
Summer's Almost Gone
Wintertime Love
The Unknown Soldier
Spanish Caravan
My Wild Love
We Could Be So Good Together
Yes, The River Knows
Five To One

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With the massive success of the single "Light My Fire" and their initial two albums, L.A.'s the Doors quickly built a sizable reputation for edgy, often over-the-top musical drama. Perhaps wary of stereotyping, or simply worn out from their grueling early success, the band took a decided left turn into softer sounds here, from the pop-drenched "Hello, I Love You" to the flamenco guitar wash of "Spanish Caravan." Even gentle ballads (by the band's standards, anyway) were a part of the Doors' new sensibility, as witnessed by "Love Street" and "Summer's Almost Gone." But lest one think the band had gone a little too soft, the antiwar diatribe "The Unknown Soldier," the edgy "Five to One," and the deliciously strange "Not to Touch the Earth" were there to remind listeners that even if the band had mellowed a bit, they were still a long way from Jay and the Americans. --Jerry McCulley

Album Description

Digitally remastered pressing of The Doors third album from 1968, a mellower affair than their previous albums but certainly just as melodic and exciting. The Doors' mixture of Rock, Blues and Jazz combined with vocalist Jim Morrison's poetic lyrics and powerful vocals created a musical Molotov cocktail that could make your senses explode...in a good way! 10 tracks including 'Hello I Love You', 'Spanish Caravan' and 'The Unknown Soldier'. Warner.

Customer Reviews:

Excellant but incomplete.......2007-06-10

I remember purchasing this album back in 1968 during the summer it came out..
I got the album home and noticed on the inner liner the lyrics to a song called. "The Celebration of the Lizard. On the liner the lyrics were written. On the album all they had was a small incert of it. Not to Touch the Earth at the time seemed very unique. It was Morrison on his new album doing a song similar to "The End" or "When the Nusics Over"
A few years later the Doors released a new Live album with the Entire version of The Celebration of the Lizard" and I finally got to hear the entire song for the first time.
This album will always been in my mind one of the two or three best albums the Doors have ever done. Jim Morrison was a master poet and in my opinion this album includes some of his finest poetic love songs.
Hello I Love You is a partial rip off of the song by the Kinks, "All of the Day and All of the Night.
Love Street is good but the real meat and potatos is Wintertime Love, The Unknown Soldier and another of my favorites Five to One. Spanish Caravan and Yes, The River Knows are also outstanding............File this under "C" for classic, If you are not familliar with the Doors and are discovering them for the first time, I suggest you get their first album with Light my Fire and this one. Strange Days would be another one to check out These first three albums are the most raw and least commercial. But you can buy anything by the Doors and not go wrong.

Sun burn.......2007-03-06

WAITING FOR THE SUN might be evidence that Jim Morrison was either a tapped-out lyric writer ("Not To Touch The Earth" and "Summer's Almost Gone") or just totally stoned out of his mind ("The Celebration Of The Lizard" poetry). But then, we see flashes of the sort of brilliance that permeated the DOORS' first two albums-- tracks like "The Unknown Soldier" and "Five To One" stand up against any that this band ever recorded.

Musically, WAITING FOR THE SUN often sounds tremendously dated-- perhaps it was outmoded even in 1968. Fuzz guitar and calliope-like organ are everywhere-- there's waltzes ("Wintertime Love") and schmaltzes ("Love Street") and all sorts of filler. A pattern of inconsistency established here followed the group right through to L.A. WOMAN. The DOORS were a band that the "Best Of" compilation was ideal for. Like THE SOFT PARADE and MORRISON HOTEL, WAITING FOR THE SUN is only for their most devoted fans and perhaps '60s rock completists.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME -- 33:08

So It Might Not Be The Doors Best, But It's Still Good.......2006-11-24

I don't believe that there is a bad Doors album, it's just some albums are better then others. I don't think even that "The Soft Parade" is bad, it's just different.

But now onto this album. "Waiting For The Sun" is a classic Doors album. While it's not the best (that honor would go to either the first album or "LA Woman", maybe even "Morrison Hotel"), it's still very good. It is a little "lighter" then preceding albums or following albums, but there are some hard-rocking numbers here as well.

The album opens up with the driving, poppy "Hello, I Love You", which became a number 1 hit single, and it's not hard to understand why. Then comes "Love Street", which is a light song, but it's very underrated. It is a nice light song. Then we have "Not To Touch The Earth", an excerpt from the epic "Celebration of the Lizard". It's a creepy, rollicking song and one of the best songs on the album. The next song is "Summer's Almost Gone", which is somewhat like "Love Street", but not as good. Then comes "Wintertime Love", which is more upbeat then it's predecessor but is still very poppy. It's also the shortest song on the album. "The Unknown Soldier" comes next, the Doors famous anti-war song, and it's a great song that has appeared on many Greatest Hits compilations. "Spanish Caravan" follows, and, much like the title implies, it has a spanish feel to it. It's a pretty good song, especially towards the end when Robby Kreiger switches from accoustic to electric guitar. Then comes "My Wild Love", which is mostly just vocals, not a bad song, not great. Then comes "We Could Be So Good Together". Much like "Wintertime Love", it is an upbeat, poppy song, but not bad in any way. Then comes "Yes, The River Knows", which is probably the worst song on the album as it is slow and not Doors-like at all. But however much that song takes it away, the next song, "Five To One", repents for it and adds a lot to the album. Probably the best song on the album, "Five to One" is the most Doors-like on the album and is one of my personal favorites.

Overall, this is a really good album that deserves a chance even if it is not THE best Doors albums, it's still really good.

Hello, I Love You - 5/5
Love Street - 5/5
Not To Touch The Earth - 5/5
Summer's Almost Gone - 4/5
Wintertime Love - 3.5/5
The Unknown Soldier - 5/5
Spanish Caravan - 4.5/5
My Wild Love - 3/5
We Could Be So Good Together - 4/5
Yes, The River Knows - 2/5
Five To One 6/5

Interesting, at least.......2006-11-06

This is a fascinating album in that it contains some of the Doors' most bizarre tracks on the same album as a few of their most banal pop ones. The weird, whacky experimental songs all rule but one, and with a single exception, the banal songs are boring.
First, the single exception to the "banal pop song" rule. Hello, I Love You is sheer, moronic bubblegum, but I don't care - I love every minute of it, even if the riff was stolen from the Kinks. It's a lot like Love Her Madly: Pure, unadultered, unpretentious rock. And if you can't appreciate it for what it is, I'd recommend clinical help. But the question stands: how many times outside of one are you gonna listen to Love Street, Summer's Almost Gone, Wintertime Love, We Could Be So Good Together or Yes, The River Knows?
Then we get to the weird stuff - which, with one odious, glaring exception, is amazing. Not To Touch The Earth is simply demented - and the Celebration of the Lizard (which it's a small part of) is even more so, but I love it. Manzarek's organ sounds like it walked out of a funeral parlour from Hell, and I've got no clue what Jim's talking about but it sure is disturbing. Slightly more accessible is the politicized rant Five to One (or at least it looks political - I've heard that it means nothing because Jim was drunk off his keister when he wrote it), which is pure metal - and probably my favorite song off the album. And speaking of political protests, they pull a hell of an antiwar classic with The Unknown Soldier, which actually works in a real firing squad that, according to legend, shot at Jim in the studio. Cool! The last of my favorites is Spanish Caravan, which I think is one of the Doors' more unjustly unknown efforts. It certainly sounds like nothing else - contrast the two parts (yes, two parts in a three minute song!) and you'll see what I mean. The lone experiment I can't really get into is My Wild Love. What's the chant doing there? I don't know, but it's gotta go. Because that's one awful song.
This is a painfully obvious transition album (with Jim loaded during half the recording sessions - figures), but I think that this could've been something had they managed to get the full Celebration of the Lizard on tape and expanded on the experimental material - while keeping Hello, I Love You, just for contrast's sake. Now it's just an average album.

the shaman lives.......2006-06-26

Since my youth I have had an ear for roots music, whether I was conscious of that fact or not. The original of that interest first centered on the blues, then early rock and roll and later, with the folk revival of the early 1960's, folk music. I have often wondered about the source of this interest. I am, and have always been a city boy, and an Eastern city boy at that. Nevertheless, over time I have come to appreciate many more forms of roots music than in my youth. The subject of the following review is an example.

The Doors are roots music you ask? Yes, in the sense that one of the branches of rock and roll derives from early rythmn and blues and in the special case of Jim Morrison, leader of the Doors, the attempt to find shamanic roots in the Western American Native American culture. Some of that influence is apparent here.

More than one rock critic has argued that at their best the Doors were the best rock and roll band ever created. Those critics will get no argument here. What a reviewer with that opinion has to do is determine whether any particular CD catures the Doors at their best. This album while it has some classics is not uniformly their best work. This reviewer advises that if you want to buy only one Doors CD that would be The Best of the Doors. If you want to trace their evolution this CD is fine.

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Excellant but incomplete
Sun burn
So It Might Not Be The Doors Best, But It's Still Good
Interesting, at least
the shaman lives

Waiting for the Sun
The Doors
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ASIN: B000002I2B
Release Date: 2006-08-29

Tracks:

Hello, I Love You
Love Street
Not To Touch The Earth
Summer's Almost Gone
Wintertime Love
The Unknown Soldier
Spanish Caravan
My Wild Love
We Could Be So Good Together
Yes, The River Knows
Five To One

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Customer Reviews:

Excellant but incomplete.......2007-06-10

Sun burn.......2007-03-06

So It Might Not Be The Doors Best, But It's Still Good.......2006-11-24

Interesting, at least.......2006-11-06

the shaman lives.......2006-06-26

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Excellant but incomplete
Sun burn
So It Might Not Be The Doors Best, But It's Still Good
Interesting, at least
the shaman lives

Waiting For The Sun
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ASIN: B000000176
Release Date: 1993-10-22

Tracks:

Hello, I Love You
Love Street
Not To Touch The Earth
Summer's Almost Gone
Wintertime Love
The Unknown Soldier
Spanish Caravan
My Wild Love
We Could Be So Good Together
Yes, The River Knows
Five To One

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Customer Reviews:

Excellant but incomplete.......2007-06-10

Sun burn.......2007-03-06

So It Might Not Be The Doors Best, But It's Still Good.......2006-11-24

Interesting, at least.......2006-11-06

the shaman lives.......2006-06-26

Anne Sofie von Otter - Wings in the Night (Swedish Songs)

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I wish I was Swedish
A feeling of discovery

Anne Sofie von Otter - Wings in the Night (Swedish Songs)
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger , Sigurd von Koch , Wilhelm Stenhammar , Ture Rangstrom , Emil Sjogren , Anne Sofie von Otter , and Bengt Forsberg
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ASIN: B000001GRT
Release Date: 1996-03-26

Tracks:

Nothing Is Like The Time Of Waiting
When I Walk By Myself
Like The Stars In The Sky
In The Month Of Tjaitra
Of Lotus Scent And Moonlight
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Maiden Blond And Maiden Brunette
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Wings In The Night
The Farewell
Pan
Come Little Buck To The Boy
The Sun Shines Prettily In The Evening
If You Love Me
Spring Night's Rain
Mankind's Lot
The Wild Swans
The Forest Is Asleep
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In The Maple's Shade
Jutta Comes to the Volkungs
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Melody
Supplication to Night
Boljeby Waltz
Return
You Look At Me With Silent Questions
I Broke Off A Little Rose For You
I Should Like to Hover over Valley and Hill
Aspaker's Polka

Customer Reviews:

I wish I was Swedish.......2006-06-10

This is simply my favorite disc of song out there. As a recreational singer, it's wonderful to come across a disc like this and be given an entire new world of song that you can't even find music for. The songs by Sigurd von Koch, who spent some time in Asia, are beautiful enough to dissolve your brain! In The Month Of Tjaitra and Of Lotus Scent And Moonlight are so full of beautiful imagery and wonderful music I can't see why people sing anything else. And the folk-inspired Pertersen-Berger songs are loads of fun too, although of course not as moving.

A feeling of discovery.......2000-09-23

The songs on this wonderful Swedish anthology may not be familiar to most listeners but they occupy an idiom not so dissimilar to the world of Grieg. (Otter and Forsberg's Grieg recital from a few years earlier is also indispensible.). The nostalgia-tinged melancholy (or is it wistful joy?) of Wilhelm Peterson-Berger's folk-inspired songs, for example, convey a hint of Grieg's art yet are distinctively Swedish. There are nine selections by Peterson-Berger, out of 31 total, and they all exemplify this composer in full melodic flower. The other composers offer something closer to what we think of as art songs: somewhat rarefied, reserved, melodically rich and often evocative. The piano accompaniments are always first rate. This treasury provides a rich and varied 74-minute overview of Swedish song.

If the quality of the Swedish literature as a whole is half as good as what's presented here, let's hope that this is only an introduction from Otter and Forsberg, who would seem to have this repertoire to themselves although one could not hope for more understanding interpreters. After all, they are Swedish! All of imagination of their earlier Grieg interpretations is present here as well. There is all the necessary depth of characterization without affected artsiness.

Tracks:

Sing To My Heart A Song
I Shall Think Of You
It Is A Spring Night
Little Girl In Blue
Moonlight
Three Poems Of The Sea: Sea Dream
Three Poems Of The Sea: Waiting
Three Poems Of The Sea: Song Of The Albatross
There Were Two Swans
Be Still My Heart
I Did Not Know
My Love For You Has Grown
Love
Parting
The Sun Had Set
Heart Cry
Far Above The Purple Hills
If I Had Known
Tell Me, Oh Blue, Blue Sky
I Only Know
Three Oriental Chants: Life
Three Oriental Chants: Shadows
Three Oriental Chants: Eternity
Longing

Average customer rating:

Strange as it sounds, this would be the "mellow" Doors album
4.5 stars - Different but still very good

Waiting for the Sun
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ASIN: B00004U8DT
Release Date: 2000-09-05

Tracks:

Hello, I Love You
Love Street
Not to Touch the Earth
Summer's Almost Gone
Wintertime Love
Unknown Soldier
Spanish Caravan
My Wild Love
We Could Be So Good Together
Yes, the River Knows
Five to One

Album Description

Remastered reissue of the classic album originally released in 1968. Packaged in a miniature LP sleeve reproduction of the original artwork.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered CD with Original, 1968 Vinyl-Edition Photos and Liner Notes.

Customer Reviews:

Strange as it sounds, this would be the "mellow" Doors album.......2005-04-29

"Waiting for the Sun," all things considered, represents the softer side of the doors. Just come the difference in tone of both the music and the lyrics of "Light My Fire," the first song most people remember hearing by the Doors, and "Hello, I Love You," the hit single off of this third album. For the most part "Waiting for the Sun" was something of a disappointment after the first two albums, but whereas "The Doors" hit #2 on the Billboard charts and "Strange Days" made it to #3, this one made it all the way to #1. Go figure, boys and girls. But in the end this might be a lesser album by the Doors but it still has its moments.

The word that really describes the difference between this album and the rest of the Doors' oeuvre is, believe or not, "mellow." Listen to the rock ballads "Love Street," "Wintertime Love," "Summer's Almost Gone," and "Yes the River Knows" and you will quickly get the point. Jim Morrison's lyrics for "Love Street" are pretty autobiographical in terms of his budding romance with Pamela Courson and fans can still check out some of the locations alluded to in the song, which is a lot less expensive than going on a pilgrimage to Paris to see Morrison's grave.

But while mellow might be a dominant element it is the eerie sounding song "The Unknown Solider," with its anti-war lyrics, that is the standout piece on the album. I am always amazed this song is only 3:10 long because it has so many parts that you think it goes on longer: Ray Manzarack provides a spooky organ intro (the man is one of my top three organ players of all-time in rock 'n' roll), the first verse has jazz elements, there is a firing squad in the middle, then the verse repeats in more of a rock style, and the song ends with the sounds of celebration. This was not a prominent anti-war song, but it is hard to find one this literate or musically ambitious.

"Hello, I Love You" was the hit single, but I always found it rather bland for a Doors song and at odds with pretty much everything else they did. The explanation is that this song actually predates their self-titled debut album, so there is a reason it sounds so outdated and out of place (face it, this is a pop song). I like Robby Krieger's flamenco guitar on "Spanish Caravan" and that song a lot more. "Not to Touch the Earth" is part of the legendary uncompleted work "The Celebration of the Lizard," and the final track "Five to One," driven by John Densmore's drumming, has some interesting lyrics attacking the flower children for failing to organize into a political power. With the heavy guitar and organ playing this last song is decidedly not in the mellow mode. The mix is a bit unsettling, but just proves the point that there is always something worth listening to on a Door's album.

4.5 stars - Different but still very good.......2004-03-30

Waiting for the Sun (1968.) Doors' third album.

By the time 1968 rolled around, the Doors had established themselves as an excellent classic rock band. Their first two albums, self-titled and Strange Days, had taken the world by storm - THIS was what rock and roll was supposed to sound like! But, Jim Morrison and the boys knew they couldn't go on creating the same album over and over again - so they started the "progressive" phase of their career. And in 1968, Waiting for the Sun, the band's third album, was released. Read on for my review of it.

The band kicks off the album with what would go on to become one of their biggest hits - Hello I Love You. Of all the band's songs, it's probably this upbeat little number that gets played on the radio the most - and with good reason. Although it was the only big hit featured on the album, it was certainly not the only good song. Track two, Love Street, though considerably less popular than the former track, is equally good. It's a melodic pop-styled tune that almost certainly won't fail to please. Even the short (less than two minutes long) track Wintertime Love is excellent. This is NOT an album of hit singles - but rather an album of underrated masterpieces. Other noteworthy tracks include Unknown Soldier, a track that many Doors fans praise as being one of the band's finest, as well as Spanish Caravan, in which the band takes on - you guessed it - a Spanish sound. Although Jim Morrison is the star of the band, his peers also play their hearts out. Robby Krieger is every bit as talented of a guitar player as, say, Eric Clapton, and on this album he establishes that. He's not quite another Hendrix, but he gets the job done. Ray Manzerek (organ) and John Densmore (drums) also play their respective instruments very well.

An interesting little bit of trivia about this album (most die-hard Doors fans already know this) - The album was originally going to be entitled The Celebration of the Lizard, and the title track was going to be another one of the band's many lengthy masterpieces, but they never could quite get it right, so it was ultimately omitted from the album and they changed the name (a studio version of that track has since emerged on the Legacy hits compilation, though.)

Overall, Waiting for the Sun is a great album. I wouldn't quite go so far as to say it's as good as the first two, but it's an excellent one nonetheless, and worthy of a score of four and a half stars. If you like the band, you're going to like this album - no questions asked.

Janacek: The Diary of One Who Disappeared
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An Aspect of Leos Janácek seldom heard

A song-drama and short solo piano pieces based on Moravian folk songs - fine listening

Janacek: The Diary of One Who Disappeared
Leos Janácek , Ian Bostridge , Thomas Adés , and Ruby Philogene
Manufacturer: EMI Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Bostridge, Ian | ( B ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00005O83M
Release Date: 2002-01-08

Tracks:

I. One Day I Met A Young Gypsy Girl - Ian Bostridge
II. That Dark-Skinned Gypsy Girl - Ian Bostridge
III. The Glow-worms Are Dancing - Ian Bostridge
IV. The Young Swallows - Ian Bostridge
V. Ploughing Is Heavy Work - Ian Bostridge
VI. Hey, You Grey Oxen - Ian Bostridge
VII. Now That I've Lost My Little Pin - Ian Bostridge
VIII. Don't Look So Sadly After Me - Ian Bostridge
IX. Welcome, Janicek - Ian Bostridge
X. God In Heaven, Eternal One - Ian Bostridge
XI. The Sweet Smell Of Ripening Wheat - Ian Bostridge
XII. The Shady Elder-grove - Ian Bostridge
XIII. Piano Solo - Ian Bostridge
XIV. The Sun Climbs High - Ian Bostridge
XVI. My Gren Oxen - Ian Bostridge
XVI. What Have I Done? - Ian Bostridge
XVII. That Which Fate Has Ordained - Ian Bostridge
XVIII. Now Nothing Matters To Me - Ian Bostridge
XIX. The Magpie Flies Away - Ian Bostridge
XX. I Have A True Love - Ian Bostridge
XXI. My Dear Father - Ian Bostridge
XXII. Farewell, My Native Land - Ian Bostridge
I. That Clock In Vivany - Thomas Ades
II. When I Sing A Song - Thomas Ades
III. Oh Georgie, Georgie Dear - Thomas Ades
IV. Mary, My Mary - Thomas Ades
V. My Darling's Already Leaving - Thomas Ades
VI. A Girl Was Weaving Flax - Thomas Ades
VII. You Promised To Marry Me - Thomas Ades
VIII. Whose Lad - Thomas Ades
IX. Whose Lass - Thomas Ades
X. When I Lie Down - Thomas Ades
XI. A Stream Is Running - Thomas Ades
XII. The Hradcany Clock - Thomas Ades
XIII. On A Black Mountain - Thomas Ades
XIV. On That Javorine Plain - Thomas Ades
XV. On That Clear Field Of Hurasky - Thomas Ades
A Reminiscence, JW VIII/32 - Thomas Ades
In Memoriam, JW VIII/9 - Thomas Ades
Andante, JW VIII/31 - Thomas Ades
Moderato, JW VIII/21 - Thomas Ades
The Golden Ring, JW VIII/33 No.12 - Thomas Ades
I Wait For You, JW VIII/33 No.13 - Thomas Ades
Christ The Lord Is Born, JW VIII/20 - Thomas Ades
X. God In Heaven - Ian Bostridge
XIV. The Sun Climbs High - Ian Bostridge

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Janácek's Diary of One Who Disappeared is a cycle, almost a quasi-opera, of 22 songs for tenor, mezzo, an offstage chorus of three female voices, and a piano. It's based on poems the composer found in a Czech newspaper purporting to be the confessions of a young man who leaves family and village for the gypsy girl he loves. The songs speak of longing, sexual attraction, guilt, regret, anxiety, and a host of other emotions wonderfully captured by Ian Bostridge, whose high tenor voice has more body and thrust than in his other recordings. Singing in the original Czech, Bostridge sounds as comfortable as a native speaker. Thomas Adès, best known as a composer, is also a superb pianist. He has to be, because the keyboard part is of vital importance, not only commenting on the vocal line and in extended postludes, but in a brief solo as well. Ruby Philogene is appropriately sultry as the gypsy, and this deeply felt performance is a triumph for all concerned. Adès scores again in the Moravian Folksongs for solo piano and in the miniature solo pieces, some of which say more in their brief span than many longer works. --Dan Davis

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An Aspect of Leos Janácek seldom heard.......2006-02-23

Leos Janácek was clearly one of the 20th century's great composers and while his operas and orchestral works are widely performed, his chamber works are nearly well kept secrets. And so it is with pleasure that this completely unique recital by two of our finest musicians joins the CD repertoire.

Janácek's 'The Diary of One Who Disappeared' is related to his operas in the dramatic intensity of the writing. Composed as his only song cycle the work is designated 'song cycle for mezzo-soprano, tenor, female chorus & piano' but in reality it is primarily a work for tenor and piano. In the hands of Ian Bostridge, whose Czech pronunciation is wholly convincing, the plight of the young man who leaves both family and town behind to follow the love for a gypsy is full of folk melodies and intense passion. Brilliant composer/conductor/pianist Thomas Adés provides the sensitive collaboration and the two are joined by mezzo Ruby Philogene as the gypsy and as part of the three voice female chorus offstage along with Diane Atherton and Deryn Edwards. This is a deeply moving work and the performance is first rate.

Filling out the recital Thomas Adés performs Janácek's works for piano, including excerpts from 'Intimate Sketches' and 'Moravian Folk songs'. His playing is subtle, intuitive and he finds all the quirky rhythms and soulful melodies inherent in Janácek's writing. Adés continues to be an outstanding piano soloist as well as one of the most important composers today. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, February 06

A song-drama and short solo piano pieces based on Moravian folk songs - fine listening.......2005-11-23

Leos Janáček (1854-1928) was (and remains) an important Czech composer. As a young man he became friends with Dvorak and was one of the early so-called nationalist composers. This movement urged its composers to write music of their homeland and Janáček was among the early group who turner to the folk songs of his native land for source stylistic materials. Many others followed his lead in their own lands (think of Kodaly, Bartok, and even Stravinsky as examples of a much larger group).

This disk contains his only surviving song cycle - which is really a kind of song drama. It is based on some poems that appeared in a newspaper and caught the composer's eye. He clipped them out and took them with him on a trip to a spa and began working on the songs. The poems were published anonymously and were ostensibly by a rustic farm boy who is lured away by a gypsy and is never heard from again. It turns out they were by Ozef Kalda (the pseudonym of Josef Kalda (1871-1921). The songs are mostly for the tenor, but the gypsy makes her appearance, as do three female voices urging the boy to follow the gypsy. Ian Bostridge is superb as the rustic who disappeared and Ruby Philogene is fine as the gypsy.

The pianist, Thomas Adès, not only accompanies the song cycle, he also plays some wonderful solo pieces. One set is of piano pieces based on Moravian folk songs and then there is a set of miscellaneous pieces. All are quite short, but very expressive. Adès is a fine and expressive artist.

The disk concludes with earlier versions of two of the songs from the song cycle.

I think it is always good to stretch your musical experience. This music is quite different than the German, Italian, French art music and song writing that you are probably more used to hearing. This music, while certainly tonal, is quite different in harmonic language, melodic angularity and spacing. Enjoy!